French Kids Eat Everything (And Yours Can Too): How Our Family Moved To France, Cured Picky Eating, Banished Snacking And Discovered 10 Simple Rules For Raising Healthy, Happy Eaters (2012)
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I wrote an excessively detailed review of this book and Goodreads ate it. So here's the succinct version.Overall opinion: Mixed.The author spends way too much time romanticizing France, French food, and French culture, and also makes generalizations about France/French culture based on her limited experiences visiting and living there. Also, it's difficult to differentiate between neutral observations of the food/culture and the author's own continued anxieties about food, parenting, and family. Maybe it's not possible.However, it's not just a food advice book, but also a memoir, so the above is forgivable. The food rules are helpful and simple and clear, and the author does a good job justifying them. Also the included recipes are very nice. Their inclusion resulted in my eating--and enjoying!--beets for the first time since childhood, and that alone made it worth the price of my reading. (Your mileage may vary, depending on your like/dislike for beets.)Bottom line: I would recommend this to people who are picky eaters or have picky eater kids. I would also advise seeking out other resources. We already follow many of the "rules" in this book, but I did find a few interesting ideas to incorporate into our routine. I also enjoyed reading about their experience in France. If you have picky eaters or rely on snacks rather than meals, I think this would be wonderful. The thing I really did not like about the book was that after reading the author's profile, it's clear she's highly intelligent and successful, but she comes across as a bit whiny and dim. I think she probably did that on purpose to make this more accessible, but it bugged me as a reader.
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Ooh, France is so cool. Despite the Francophilic tendencies, there's some good advice here.
—Rachel
I love food and this book reminds me how to love it in a healthy happy fashion!
—stuti
A solid 3.5. It gave me lots to think about around our kids' food habits!
—vish
